What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[SamuraiMegas]

Im currently in high school. We can't eat outside and it's so infuriating, we have a courtyard and plenty of places to eat, but we can't sit out there.

[Forlorn Drifter]

My advisors and various out-of-school mentors better be right about GPA not affecting the job opportunities in my field too much. With how busy school keeps me, I don't have time to take internships or jobs to fill out experience...

No body gives a fuck about your GPA except other schools. Unless you're planning to go straight into grad school, it doesn't matter, and even if you are, your GRE score is way more important than your GPA. It's mainly just for bragging rights (like being able to say I graduated Magna Cum Laude, for example).

You're probably right, my school is just so filled with hopeful engineer majors, pre-med, pre-vets, business and lawyer folks (in fields where GPA in our state can be the deciding factor between two otherwise exactly the same applicants much more often than one would expect) that their anxiety about it rubs off on me.

Sorry to hear about the issues with y'all not getting to eat where you want. That's stupid.

[prfsnl_gmr]

You're probably right, my school is just so filled with hopeful engineer majors, pre-med, pre-vets, business and lawyer folks (in fields where GPA in our state can be the deciding factor between two otherwise exactly the same applicants much more often than one would expect) that their anxiety about it rubs off on me.

Sorry to hear about the issues with y'all not getting to eat where you want. That's stupid.

Don't let it get to you. Experience trumps education; so, you are better served spending your time lining up good career development, mentoring, and networking opportunities than you are spending your time worrying about whether your GPA is a 3.3 or a 3.25. (Only students who don't know any better worry about that stuff.)

[MrPopo]

When I was doing my interviewing in college I only had one company outright put a hard limit on GPA. Everyone else it tended to come down to how well you interviewed and what else was on your resume; GPA would end up being a tiebreaker.

[fastbilly1]

I was disqualified for a job recently because of my Highschool GPA, over ten years out of college. The interviewer was applauded that I could not remember something that important.

[MrPopo]

Appalled. And any company with hiring practices like that is a company you don't want to work for.

[fastbilly1]

She may have clapped in the process, you dont know.





Now I know why I did not do well in highschool.

[laurenhiya21]

Been extremely tired past few days. Haven't been sleeping too badly but my blood results are taking longer than I thought they would, which means I ran out of thyroid medication. Hopefully I get them back soon because I can hardly do anything when I'm this tired.

Also went out to ramen last weekend, but what I ordered was pretty bad. Honestly I think I've had packaged ramen better than that. Such a disappointment

[MrPopo]

Where'd you go? I know a couple of good places on the Eastside.

[SirGawain]

Had a job interview for a school in my area and I am going crazy waiting to see if they call me back. I feel it went really well, but I keep second guessing myself.